Monday, May 7, 2012

Giveaway!!! And a Butterfly walk through

I'll get to the giveaway details at the end of the post, I think you'll want to take part in it and hope you'll read through the whole post and leave me some comments.

I started this butterfly on Saturday and tried to remember to take pictures at different stages. I only remembered a few times but you can see a bit of how my paintings take shape.

I forgot to take a picture of my starting sketch, but that's how I usually begin. At this point in the painting I just have things color blocked in. The shading that you see on the flowers is just because I didn't clean my brush and kept adding paint rotating between the purple and white.

At this point, I have most of the final design in place (I later went back and added some more leaves and a few more flowers to get a better balance.) I still haven't done much shading, I was just playing with placement and balance.

Here is the final painting. You can see I increased the depth of shading in all parts of the painting. The lighting on the photo is bad and I'm sorry for that. It's raining here today so I can't get a well-lit shot. I'm pretty happy with this painting. It is done on an 8" x 8" x 1-1/2" gallery wrap canvas. The flowers, leaves and stems continue onto all the sides of the painting. I love that look of continuing the subject onto the sides of the canvas.

I'd love to hear what you think about this piece so please leave me a comment. I'd love it if you would also follow this blog.

So, onto the giveaway. I'll be giving away an original painting-subject matter to be decided on later. This painting will be on the smallish side so that I can ship it at a minimal cost (I'm thinking it'll be an 8" x 10" or smaller!) What do you need to do to enter the giveaway? Follow this blog, and/or follow Brandy's Fine Art on Facebook and leave me a comment either here or there. I'll pick a winner (random drawing of all entries) on May 20th. This contest is not restricted to just the US, so all my out of country artist friends may enter!

4 comments:

Beautiful, Brandy ! This butterfly has such great detail. Congrats on the new website and all the interest in your art work. Awesome !Thanks for the chance to win a piece of art from my Creative Sistah !Light and love !

I like that fact that you showed the progression in your creative process. This is my favorite butterfly picture that you have done. I love how the blue background sets off the flowers. I too think it's cool how the painting wraps the canvas. That way you can see the continuity from all sides :) GREAT JOB!!! I am soo happy for your success.

Brandy, I am loving the way you are growing in your art everyday! Thank you for posting images. Can you begin to imagine how amazing you will be in a year if you continue to work at this pace???? Can't wait!! I am so impressed with how you are going at this full throttle. You have to be on top of the world!